“A Film Festival Without Films” – James Mudge on the 2014 Beijing Independent Film Festival

James Mudge, festival manager for the London Chinese Visual Festival, attended the 2014 Beijing Independent Film Festival as a guest. In an article for Eastern Kicks, he reflects on his first experience at the festival, and what it means to hold an event “without films” – when the authorities have prevented the formal, public screenings that are a central element of what most people would understand to be a “film festival”. The article is accessible online here.